Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
ESM graduate student Jasmine Shen was awarded the COAST Graduate Student Research Award, which will help to fund her Masters research studying invertebrate drift on the Trinity River.
International Studies Program Leader Dr Alison Holmes and two students - Samuel Lipiec (INTL) and Ileanna Spoelstra (PSCI & INTL) had an article accepted by the Diversity Abroad journal, Global Impact Exchange, entitled "Stepping From Behind the Redwood Curtain:
A Cultural Wealth Model to Support Study Abroad at Humboldt State University" based on campus data and interviews conducted by the students.
Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies presented her paper “Engaging ‘Radical Relationality’ in Environmental Governance: The Yurok Tribe’s Approach to Water and Forest Management” at the American Association of Geographers Conference, held virtually, April 6-10
Humboldt State University's next Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Recreational Sports, Jane Teixeira will be receiving the Order of Parliamentarian Award from the University of Oklahoma College of Law at the annual Order of the Owl Hall of Fame Ceremony, this Thursday, March 12.
The Order of the Owl recognizes OU Law graduates who demonstrate leadership and service through outstanding accomplishments in their legal careers. Teixeira will receive the inaugural presentation of the Order of the Parliamentarian; an award recognizes more recent OU Law graduates for distinguished accomplishments in the first 20 years of their legal career.
Teixeira has 25 years of experience in higher education as an administrator, coach, student-athlete, and leader. Her focus is on supporting student-athletes, mentoring coaches and athletic staff, and maintaining a sustainable, successful program. She is committed to fiscal management, strategic planning, student-athlete welfare initiatives, and diversity and inclusion plans in collegiate athletics.
Prior to being named the Director of Athletics at Humboldt State, Teixeira was the Senior Associate Commissioner and Senior Woman Administrator at The PacWest Athletic Conference. Prior to the role at the PacWest Athletic Conference, Teixeira worked at the University of Southern California, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Texas A&M International University.
Teixeira was a three-year starter in Softball and received her bachelor's degree in applied learning and development/sport management with a minor in communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a Master's of Education from Southwest Texas State University in physical education with a concentration in physical education/sports administration. In addition, she has earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma.
She has provided leadership on legal issues that intercollegiate athletics face, overseen and directed championship events, and created and implemented diversity and inclusion plans which included hiring practices, conference awards and recognition, and professional development of young coaches and administrators.
Dr. Larson was interviewed by Nós Diario (Santiago, Galicia, Spain) in article that analyzed the democratic primary elections in the U.S., published on 5 March 2020. An excerpt of the article, in Galician, is available here: https://www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/internacional/biden-vs-sanders-obxectivo-1991/20200304185431092463.html?
On 3 March 2020, Super Tuesday, Dr. Larson was a guest on Redwood TV (KIEM-News Channel 3) nightly news to discuss the Democratic presidential primary elections in California and beyond. The three minute segment can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfD6iaDB-mg&t=3s
Received "Exemplary Teaching Activity" award from the National Association of Geology Teachers for co-authored "Rupture of Continental Lithosphere Mini-lesson Sequence"
Presented at American Naturalist Meeting 2020 in Monterey, CA.
Co-authored "APEX simulation: Water quality of Sacramento Valley wetlands impacted by waterfowl droppings". Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. (in press)
Won the second prize of "Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019" in Remote Sensing. Prize will be a certification and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Remote Sensing
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards.pdf/0/pdf_16_2019_5_a…
Published "Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in Mattole River Watershed, USA". Society and Natural Resources (currently online - issue forthcoming).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2020.1718815
Kerhoulas and Sherriff were awarded $75,000 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Tree mortality and regeneration across competitive and geographic gradients in Northern California."
Ashley Cable and Micah Scheff received call back interviews with Stella Adler’s Art of Acting Studio in L.A. In addition, Micah received a call back interview with Kaiser Permanente’s Education Theatre.
Gwynn Cristobal was an Irene Ryan nominee for acting, and received call back interviews with Relative Theatrics (Laramie, WY), Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre (Bay Area), University of Hawaii- Manoa (MA/MFA program), Missoula Children’s Theatre Company (Touring), Fairhaven Summer Repertory (Bellingham, WA), And National Theatre Institute (CT).
Kiara Hudson was an Irene Ryan Region 7 Finalist, was offered an MFA spot at University of Idaho as a Sophomore Undergraduate Educational Theatre, and received call back interviews with National Theatre Institute, Relative Theatrics, Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre, Missoula Children's Theatre and Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre.
2020 KCACTF (Regional Theatre Festival in Colorado) achievements in technical theatre:
Percival Ferrugia (lighting designer) and Bailie Molsberry (stage manager) were offered jobs at Village Theatre Kidstage in Washington. In addition, Percival got a job offer at Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Wyoming. Bailie was offered jobs at Livermore Shakespeare Festival and Pacific Conservatory Performing Arts in Solvang. Destiny Aguilera was offered a job at Theatre West Summer Rep, in Nebraska and received an award for their Heathers Prop Design from VectorWorks.
Jaiden Clark and Maude Jaeb presented a powerful workshop on the issues for transgender actors in collegiate theatre at the 2020 KCACTF regional theatre festival in Fort Collins, Colorado in February.
Dr. Justus Ortega co-authored "Concussion Symptoms Among Athletes: Preinjury Factors Predict Postinjury Factors," published in Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000562).
https://journals.lww.com/headtraumarehab/Abstract/publishahead/Concussi…
Daniel Jones, an HSU Forestry major with a concentration in operations, won 1st place in the student web map/app contest at the California Geographic Information Systems (CalGIS) 2020, conference in Long Beach, California, on February 9-11th.
Daniel’s web map/app “ArcCollector Spillway Inspection Workflow for the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District” has been deployed for the use of the District since 2019. The use of this workflow has reduced the post-processing time of inspection/repair cataloging and reporting from 1 to 2 days down to an hour. The second iteration of his project is expected to bring inspection times down from approximately 2 minutes to about 2 – 30 seconds.
Melody Brown, an HSU Business major with a concentration in accounting, was selected as one of 10 national finalists to attend the Association of Government Accountant (AGA) National Leadership Training (NLT) conference in Washington, D.C. on February 12-13th.
AGA supports government work in all areas of financial management, accounting, auditing, information technology, and other business operations. The mission of the organization is to help the government work more efficiently and effectively. The NLT conference is the flagship networking, training, and solutions event for the AGA. The conference is designed to highlight innovations, best practices, research, and lead to positive changes in government; thereby, leading to benefits for our society.
As a recipient of the AGA NLT scholarship, Melody received an all expense paid trip to Washington D.C., including flight, lodging, and conference fees being paid for. Among the highlights of the event included the opportunity for Melody to meet with the leading KPMG Partner of the Federal Government practice, Jeffrey Steinhoff, the U.S. Comptroller General of the United States, Gene Dodaro, as well as networking with several other notable accounting professionals in attendance. She described the experience as an “incredible learning opportunity that opened her eyes to the vast number of government job opportunities open to the younger generation.” She was surprised by the sheer number of professionals willing to offer advice or career help. Reflecting upon her experience, she has one piece of advice for students: “so next time you hear about a horribly awkward networking event, challenge yourself to go! You might be surprised at what you gain from the experience.”
Taylor Zenobia, FISH undergraduate, has been awarded Best Student Oral Presentation by the U.S. Aquaculture Society at their annual conference in Oah’u, Hawai’i! Taylor is also minoring in Scientific Scuba Diving and Women’s Studies.
TFD faculty member, Susan Abbey, is currently acting in Steven Dietz' play, BLOOMSDAY, at Redwood Curtain Theatre in Eureka. It is an Irish time-travel love story blends wit, humor, and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before its past.
Won U.S. Aquaculture Society Best Abstract/Travel Award at Aquaculture America, Honolulu, Hawaii
Co-authored "Fire, livestock grazing, topography, and precipitation affect occurrence and prevalence of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in the central Great Basin, USA". Biological Invasions 22, 663-680.
Co-authored "Mapping of land cover with open‐source software and ultra‐high‐resolution imagery acquired with unmanned aerial vehicles". Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi:10.1002/rse2.144.
Presentation at the Raptor Research Foundation meeting (Fort Collins, CO) - Modeling spatial variation in density of golden eagle nest sites in the western United States.
Coauthored a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees"
Published first authored paper (with 7 co-authors) - Modeling spatial variation in density of Golden Eagle nest sites in the Western United States. PLoS ONE. 14(9): e0223143. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pone.0223143
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223143
Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: "Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce."
Published first authored paper (with 17 co-authors) - Conservation Planning for Species Recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study with the Northern Spotted Owl. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210643. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210643
Presented a poster at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Ramorum leaf blight reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and California bay."
HSU student participants in this year’s international Mathematical Contest in Modeling were Jahaira Valencia , Berlin Del Aguila, Griffin Kowash, Sam Mendez, Melanie Tapia, Johnny Rasnic, Daisy D. Montalvo , Edwin Espinoza, Julia Vang, Gynell Higby, Joshua Maldonado, Nicole Perry, Charlin Duff, Eric Malekos, Skye Gibney, Ryan Myers, Emily Ord, Alyssa Johnson, Cade Freels, Sonnet Antio, Ana Sammel, Christina Bewley, Mariah Graham, and Thomas Boerne. The contest challenges teams to clarify and analyze a real-world open-ended problem and propose a solution within a 99 hour time frame.
Has been selected to join the Chemistry inter-institutional peer mentoring Alliance in the Northwest Regional Network, as part of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership ASCEND project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development). Her bio and photo will also be posted on the ASCEND website.https://wou.edu/ascend/
Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient
https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-fo…
Presented a talk at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Conifer encroachment and removal in a northern California woodland: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity."
Presented a talk at the Ecological Society of America Conference in Louisville, KY: "Within-crown physiology of tall Picea sitchensis trees."
HSU sub-award of the NSF-Funded SUMMIT-P Consortium. SUMMIT-P is a consortium of institutions committed to curricular innovations in the first two years of mathematics to improve the training of students in partner disciplines. Boyle, Mazzag and Saunders attended a SUMMIT-P workshop in Denver, Colorado.
On February 6th and 7th, HSU held a Kaizen Event on the Staff Recruitment process. We successfully identified numerous areas for improvement. Many of which can be implemented right away.
Contributed talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings "Corequisite courses and the STEM Pathway."
Was offered a CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) grant for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Panel discussion/talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings "Advancing Mathematics Education at Scale" with co-authors Uri Treisman Dana Center, Julie Glass, CSU East Bay, Alana Unfried, CSU Monterey Bay, Michael O'Sullivan, San Diego State University
Presented a contributed paper at the Joint Math Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 15-18, 2020.
Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada, Jan. 15-16, 2020.
Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada January 15th-16th, 2020.
Journalism Major Freddy Brewster has been named the recipient of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter. Brewster earned the prestigious honor for a series of stories he wrote for the Lost Coast Outpost. SPJ bestows the award to journalists for “significant contributions to advancing freedom of information and/or expression.”
Brewster joins a list of HSU winners of the award: Professor Marcy Burstiner in 2018, and journalism alumni Thadeus Greenson in 2017 and Matt Drange in 2015 and 2016. Ferndale Enterprise Editor Caroline Titus also took the award in 2016.
Students presented a poster and three talks at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting held at Stanford University on research being done in the Gravitational Research Laboratory.
Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Zald (PI) and Byrne (co-PI)'s awarded $87,100 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Quantification and mitigation of large pine mortality after prescribed burning in a drought altered Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California, USA."
Presented a poster (with faculty Kerry Byrne) "The Impact of invasion and removal of Lupinus arboreus on seedbanks in coastal sand dune environments" at the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Received a Bureau of Land Management CESU Award to study the impact of newt predation on endangered California Red-legged frogs.
Received a research grant from Save the Redwoods League to study the genetic diversity and abundance of Southern Torrent Salamanders in Redwood State and National Parks.